Legal Director, Products & Partnerships - 11858
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of a Legal Director, Products & Partnerships at Coupa:
We’re seeking a proactive and entrepreneurial Senior Counsel, Product and Partnerships to support our global AI products. In this role, you will enable growth and mitigate risk for a technology platform that is leading in the AI transformation space. You'll dive deep into cutting-edge technology, navigate fast-moving global regulatory obligations, and spearhead legal initiatives. Reporting into VP, Legal, you will partner with our top-tier product managers, engineers, and legal team, and become a trusted leader at the company. Our legal team is practical and business-minded, and it is crucial that our work not only mitigates risk but enables growth and drives customer adoption.
What You’ll Do
- Provide Strategic Guidance: Balance legal expertise with creative problem-solving to deliver risk-calibrated advice to our business leaders. Make decisions quickly and efficiently to advance company goals, without getting sidetracked by low risk issues or bureaucracy.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Technology teams from the earliest stages of development through launch and beyond, providing practical legal and compliance guidance across the full product lifecycle.
- Serve as an embedded advisor to product teams, proactively identifying legal, regulatory, privacy, and security risks and developing pragmatic solutions that enable innovation while appropriately managing risk.
- Develop a deep understanding of Coupa's software, hardware, AI, and data products to become a trusted advisor to leaders across the organization.
- Review product features, marketing materials, customer-facing communications, and other external content to identify legal and regulatory risks before publication.
- Serve as a key partner in continuously enhancing the company's compliance program, including privacy, AI governance, and related regulatory initiatives, while developing scalable policies, training, and resources that empower employees to navigate evolving legal and compliance requirements.
- Draft and negotiate product partnership agreements.
- Draft terms of use and agreements, and negotiate those with third parties, as necessary.
- Translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, practical, business-oriented advice that enables teams to make informed decisions quickly and confidently.
- Collaborate with other teams within the Legal department (especially Regulatory, and Commercial Counsel) on deals that cross team boundaries.
- Build legal materials, such as playbooks, FAQs, standard positions, and templates that enable business and legal teams to move quickly with clear guardrails.
- Be available to work on EST time zone.
What You Will Bring to Coupa
- Business-Minded Pragmatism: A track record of building trust with product and engineering teams by combining legal expertise, data-driven analysis, and practical problem-solving.
- Strategic Vis